A couple newb questions

[Patrick Morris]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Forsaken wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I'm fairly new to dealing with nagios. I'm currently running nagios
> 2.10 on OpenBSD (using their package)
> 
> My first question is thus -
> 
> Are hostgroups pretty much just a cosmetic gathering for viewing in a
> web interface, or can they serve some practical use during
> configuration.
> 
> For example, if I define a hostgroup of servers as web servers, is
> there any way for me to then define a service check for http that can
> reference the hostgroup instead of having to list individual member
> servers?

Yes, you can specify hostgroup_name instead of hostname. Nearly all my
configs are set up like this, even in the case of one-shot servers, to
make scaling easier.

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